Analysts see this as reflective of growing frustration by President Moon, who campaigned on a return to diplomacy with North Korea, but has seen his brief time in office dominated by repeated US threats to destroy North Korea.

Moon’s comments, to those analysts, are an attempt to reassert the traditional balance on the Korean Peninsula, where the US presence is about supporting their South Korean allies, as opposed to South Korea simply being stuck on the North Korean border while the US steams toward a nuclear war.

It’s unclear, however, how well that will be received in the US, as the Trump Administration was already believed not to be thrilled with Moon’s pro-diplomacy bias, and in the past couple of months has re-branded North Korea as a threat to the US mainland, as opposed to a threat to South Korea and Japan.

The timing may be in Moon’s favor, however, as Trump Administration officials appear eager to talk back the notion that a nuclear war is imminent, though both they and North Korea are making it clear they each regard the other side as wholly to blame for the soaring tensions.

15 thoughts on “South Korean President Says He Can Veto War Against North Korea”

Trump could end this tomorrow if he chose – a state visit and a treaty to formally end the Korean war and a promise to never attack NK would be all takes. Unfortunately Trump is a minion of the Deep State and the psychopaths who rule Murica don’t care about anything but dominating the planet and everyone on it.

Wrong. The only person who can end the crisis is Kim Jong-Un, that is, if he even has the power to stop their nuclear proliferation, which is untested – for all we know, he would be murdered if he tried.

Wrong, the US as been doing nothing but provoking NK all along. The NK offered two peace proposals. One under Obama and one under Trump. Both times the US rejected these offers of peace. Because the US didn’t want to stop there War Games in South Korea and off the Korean coast. Along with simulated Nuclear strikes on North Korea using B1 Bombers.

What a joke. North Korea destroyed its rapport with the U.S. when it threw out nuclear inspectors and didn’t live up to its side of the human rights reforms, this all ocurred when KIM took over by murdering his own uncle and brother. You may be fine with a nuclear North Korea but the world is not. Btw if you think a sovereign foreign policy is “arrogant”, move to the EU.

I’m not saying the Korean Conflict was right, but South Korea would not exist if the United States did not defend it. The proposal by Moon is outrageous, nobody can veto the United States from conducting its own independent foreign policy.

Of course they can you arrogant you know what. When the lives of millions of Koreans are at stake. And the country of Korea can be destroyed. Besides this would be a serious breach of international law. Especially seeing NK hasn’t attack the USA.

You’re 100% correct, Ron; South Korean President Moon-Jae-in is also correct, since he’s the country’s leader. He can veto US war against North Korea .. After all, the lives of millions of Koreans, in both the North and the South are at stake here, and both countries would definitely be destroyed, as well as Japan. All three nations have nuclear power plants, and the meltdown of all of these plants would create 100 or more Fukushimas.
The arrogant idiot to whom you responded has no idea whatsoever of the fatal consequences of an attack on the DPRK would unleash. He’s nothing but an ignorant blowhard. We’re all lucky Trump was merely bluffing and Kim Jong-un backed down. Truth is, the DPRK hasn’t invaded its southern neighbor since 1950; and even then, it was provoked into doing so.

Now what would happen if North Korea did place four missiles in international waters just 12 miles from Quam? All things considered, it could not help but improve the situation, for doing what our Empire wants can only lead to Empire expansion, the worst of all evils.